Scottish Bells
Image: Bells from Holy Trinity Church. A carillon of 15, c1926. Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, … Read more
Sounding Stones: Reconstructing Historic Scottish Sacred Soundscapes
‘The Ringing Stone of Tiree’ in J.A. Harvie-Brown and T.E. Buckley A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides … Read more
Review: Take It To The Bridge
Image: Tay Road Bridge, approaching Dundee in the slow land (2001), Colin Smith CC BY-SA-2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tay_Road_Bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_97596.jpg Dundee: once, jute, jam … Read more
Review: Alexander ‘Battan’ Grant, 1856-1942
Image – the rondello, from Inverness Museums, in Smartify.org Art is long, and life is short, alas; people often need … Read more
The Crannog at Loch Tay: whistles and lyres
Image: whistle and lyre bridge, from EXARC.net 2020(1), Collinson, photographed under CC BY-NC 4.0 licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en Soundyngs recently wrote about … Read more
Burns’s Family Flute and Other Pastoral Pipes
Image: Burns Family Flute display from Ellisland Farm Museum. Please see Further Reading for their site and how to contribute … Read more
Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century
Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions … Read more
Scottish Musical Place Names
Image: Piper Street in Keith (author’s own photograph) Summer holidays always throw up some musical curiosities, and this year’s highlight … Read more
Iceland and Scotland: Some Musical Connections
Summer is a time for travelling – as the old Vikings knew well. Travelling not so far from home, Soundyngs … Read more
Review: Scottish Life and Society – A Compendium of Scottish Ethnography (14 vols)
This review covers books which have been out for a few years now, but which are part of a larger, … Read more
Canna House Reopens – a wish for the archive
Image: Canna House before refurbishment, Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The National Trust for Scotland … Read more
‘Give Me Your Hand’: Fife connections for this traditional tune
Image: The Towers, Dysart, Fife image from author’s own collection. The Towers, in Dysart’s East Quality Street, was an elegant … Read more